American Athletes and Spectator Sports During World War II

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  1. 1. Boxer Max Schmeling went on to serve as this in the German Luftwaffe
  2. 4. _____ NHL players served in the war
  3. 6. Joe Louis was drafted and spent the war with the USO giving _____ at bases around the country
  4. 7. Canada's national sport
  5. 9. School that suspended football entirely for the duration of the war
  6. 10. _____ weeks after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, baseball commissioner Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis asked President Franklin D. Roosevelt for guidance on whether or not the upcoming major league baseball season should be canceled.
  7. 11. On July 8, 1942, automobile and motorcycle racing were suspended entirely for the duration of the war due to gas and rubber rationing.
  8. 13. Team Jim Lummus played for in the NFL
  9. 15. William K. Wrigley owned what MLB team.
  10. 17. Famous Manchester United stadium that had its main grandstand destroyed in a 1941 Luftwaffe raid
  11. 19. Number of NFL players who lost their lives during the war
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  1. 2. After September 1, 1939 this organization canceled the rest of the soccer season after only three games because of a ban on the assembly of large crowds
  2. 3. Formed the AAGPBL in 1943
  3. 5. NFL players Maurice Britt and Jack Lummus both earned what award
  4. 6. Captain of the UCLA basketball team in 1938-1939 who died in an Italian prison camp
  5. 8. Number of teams that made up the AAGPBL
  6. 12. Team in the AAGPBL
  7. 14. West Point’s basketball arena is named in honor of Edward C. Christi who died in combat in what country.
  8. 16. MLB player Harry M. O’Neill (Philadelphia Athletics) was killed in action here on March 6, 1945
  9. 18. In the AAGPBL, the pitcher’s mound was only _____ feet from home plate rather than the standard 60 feet, six inches in the majors